Topic: La Salle, the "Century", & supporting cast (Read 365 times)

La Salle, the "Century", & supporting cast

« on: Mar 24th, 2012, 6:29pm »

Like "PENN STATION" in New York, "LA SALLE STREET STATION" is only a name today.

This cavernous, historic edifice, until late 1967, was the western terminus for the world-famous "20TH CENTURY LIMITED"; in October of the following year, the last PENN-CENTRAL train departed, with the railroad moving remaining trains over to Union Station.

The ROCK ISLAND was the last to use the venerable old depot, which, of course, no longer exists today.

Let us pay homage to this great depot and the steel-wheeled thoroughb reds that once called there.....